Receiver for discharged shells.



Y Patented Dec. 4, |900. C.' H. DIVETERICH. RECEPTACLE FOR DISGHARGED SHELLS.

(Application med My s, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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CHARLES HENRY DIETERICH, OF COOPERSTOVN, ILLNOIS.

RECEIVER FOR DISCHARGED SHELLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 663,262, dated December 4, 1900.

A Application ned May 8.1900. senat Nn. 15,952. (Nomaden 10 'AY/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES HENRY DIE- One purpose of the invention is to provide a receiver for shells ejected or extracted from firearms, which receiver is of simple construction and effective in operation, and to so construct the device that it can be readily attached to the frame of a gun or detached therefrom, the shells quickly discharged from the device, and the device compactly closed or folded when it is not required.- ,Y

A further purpose of the invention is to construct a receiver for empty shells adapt ed for use in connection with any repeating gun from which the shells are ejected from the side portion of the frame.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 isa side elevation of the frame of a repeating firearm and a side elevation ofthe improved device applied thereto, and Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the device detached from the firearm and in an open position.

A represents the frame of a repeating fire- `trm, B the barrel, and C a magazine. The device consists of a body-frame D, the said frame comprising a horizontal bottom member 10 and upwardly-extending side members 11, the said side members being preferably angular or L-shaped in cross-section, as is shown particularly in Fig. 2. The bottom member 10 of the main or body frame D of the deviceis provided with a longitudinal slot 12, having a central enlargement. This slot 12 is intended to receive the shank of a button 13, the head of which button is passed through the slot 12 when the device is attached to the frame of the gun, as the button 13 is secured in any suitable or approved manner to the said frame.

In applying the main or body frame D of the device to the frame A of the firearm the body-frame D of' the device is placed transversely of the frame A of the rearm, so that the head of the button 13 may readily passv through the slot 12, and after the head of the button has thus passed the slot the body-frame D of the device is brought toits normal position, in which the bottom 1() of the body-V side pieces 11 of the body-frame D of the device, the saidextremit-ies of the bow i3 being passed through the outwardly-extending members of the side pieces of the said body- `frame, as shown best in Fig. 2, and in order that the bow 13n maybe held at a right angle to the side pieces 1.1 of the body-frame of the device and not be drawn downward by the weight of the shells received by the device nuts 13" or other form of tension devices are provided at the end portions of the bow 13.

A second bow 14 is used also in connection with the body-frame D of the device. The ends of this second bow are pivoted in the outwardly -extending members of the side pieces ot' the said body-frame at a point below the upper bow 13 and likewise at a point nearer the inner members of the side pieces of the body-frame, as is best shown in Fig. 2.

The lower bow 14 extends vertically downward when the upper bow 13 is placed ina horizontal position, and when the lower bow 14 is in its downwardlyextending position the horizontal member of the said bow is in engagement with thelouter face of the lower or horizontal'member 10 ot' the frame l).

A pocket. 15, made oflany srmable or approved material, a netting being preferably used, is attached to the upper bow 125 and to the lower bow 14. In attaching this pocket to the two bows the upper mouth portion of the pocket is brought near the pivotal connectionof the said upper bow with the bodyframe D, the body portion of the bow 13 extending within the pocketywhile the lower IOO upper bow 13 opening through which the extracted or eject'- tached to the horizontal memberpf the lower bow 14. Under this construction when the is in its horizontal position (shown in Fig. 2) and the lower bow is in its lower vertical position (shown in the same figure) the mouth 16 of the pocket will be immediately opposite the space between the members of the body-frame and opposite the ed shells are adapted to pass from the frame of the gun. This pocket is adapted to receive emptyshells 17or shells from which the charge has been tired.

When itis desired to remove the shells from the pocket, the bottom of the pocket is raised to a horizontal position or slightly abovea horizontal position, whereupon the lower bow 14 is brought toa horizontal position below the upper bow, and the shells can readily roll out from said pocket and drop upon the ground or into any receptacle placed in position to receive them.

When the deviceis not required, both of the bows laand 14 are dropped downward, so as toplie close to the body-frame D of the device, and the pocket may be wrapped around that. portion of the gun to whichv the device is applied.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A receiver for discharged shells, consisting of a frame larranged for attachment to a gun, members pivoted to the said frame, ca-

pable of assuming a parallel position ora sition at an angle to each other, and a. bagger t pivoted members, as

attached tothe Side members: of the' capable of assuming a position at an.

opposite the space between the members of the frame. v v 3. In a receiver for discharged shells, a frame comprising a lower member having means for attachment to a firearm, and side members at an angle to the lower member, a bow pivotally connected with the upper'portion of the side members of the frame, a second bow pivotally attached to the side members of the frame at. a point below and at one side of the upper bow, and a net or pocket the mouth portion of which extends over the upper bow to a point'near its pivotal connection with the frame, another portion of the mouth of the said Apocket being connected.

with a member pose specified.

In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specification in the presence of of the lower bow, for the purtwo subscribing witnesses.

r CHARLES HENRY DIryrERIcH.Y

' `W`1tnessesr Vi/'ILL-iunn H. BISHOP, ALBERT E. GLossoP. 

